Amiram Gafni is a professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and a member of CHEPA. He is also a research associate with the Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster. He has more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In the 2011 World Bank rankings of health economics researchers (Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 31:406-439 (Table 5) he was ranked equal 35th in the world (equal 1st in Canada) based on the volume and impact of his publications. His research interests are in the area of economic evaluation of health care programs (both methods development and empirical applications), modeling of consumers' health-care behaviour, models of patient-physician decision-making (e.g., shared decision-making), policy analysis and risk and decision analysis in health.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

economic evaluation (development and empirical applications)

modeling of consumers' and providers' behaviour (e.g., the physician-patient encounter)